New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[OlafS3]

This is not a soundcard in the sense you think propably

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71174&highlight=prism&page=13

"This card is an audio stream decoder, not a sound card, so I think it's  very unlikely that it will support AHI at all. Would be a million times  more useful than decoding MP3s on an Amiga though..."

[OlafS3]

As I understand it Prisma Music card helps slow main processor to decode resource intense sound formats. That only makes sense with slow hardware, Vampire is also promised to have 16bit sound, together with fast main processor on vampire Prism makes no sense anymore except collectors who see FPGA as not "real" enough. But that market becomes smaller and smaller in future.

[OlafS3]

Yup, thats how I understand it too.

That said, maybe there might be developments softwarewise that will help improve performance with a Vampire/Prisma combination. The less work the Vampire has to do, I guess will be a good thing?

If Prisma was sold in 2015 after NovaCoders demostration, they would probarly have sold healthy numbers. Now, I guess it will be intresting to see how AeonKit can advance the product to the point it makes sense to customers...

Alot of assumptions based on too little information.

I am not sure if a combination of Prisma and Vampire finally makes sense. Do not forget that everything will move to Vampire in future including chipset emulation and processor. Finally only component used from A600 are keyboard and perhaps some of the interfaces. The same will be true for other amiga models. If it is possible to use addons like Prisma is unknown to me and if it really can be used additional. Has Prisma its own RAM and how much? If there is not much it would propably block the system more than it helps. But that is only guessing in the blue now

I have shortly looked at press release... no mentioning of RAM on the board, only of the DSP processor.

[OlafS3]

Its not what Im saying, and you know it.

Bszili on amigworld about Tabor:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=40994&forum=33&start=140&viewmode=flat&order=0

"@Spectre660

That's not really an argument, the OS4 h/w "market" is already pretty saturated."

sounds not positive either :laugh1:

Prisma simply should have been sold 2014. We have 2016 now and the market is changing, bad luck

[OlafS3]

@F0LLETT

Thats fair enough, wanting to be 100% ready with supporting software.

My question was at the end of my last post so I guess it vanished in the "noise";

Will the Card work on A600 with 604n that got 2 clockports (and eventually a Vampire)?
I guess the Vampire addition is a open question unless you have a Vampire to test with.

the question is would it make sense to combine with Vampire?

how is it integrated? Does it operate independently or does it block execution of program until done? If it blocks program and is slower than the "processor" on Vampire FPGA it could slow the system. Perhaps someone could explain how it is (or is planned to) be integrated and how software would access it. If processor is slower for that task than the card then of course it always makes sense.